EB v.80 - First Impressions?

[Sol Invictus]

I have been waiting for two years to play this mod and finally jumped into it tonight as the Romani for about ten turns. I am absolutely stunned by the amount of work this must have required. It is a very impressive accomplishment and I think I will play a campaign of EB before I play MTW2; even if/when the patch comes out. I salute you.

[Dram]

my impression is basically that of being overwhelmed by the new content and amount of choice/direction avaliable, as well as being blown away by the quality and polish already evident, even in a beta!

the music in particular blends in so well with each culture and adds an epic, cinematic feel to the game.

overall im really amazed and very respectful of the amount of work put into it all.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

My first immpressions were somewhat tainted by anger/annoyance. Turns out if you copy the RTW folder then uninstall, it removes the original as well as the copy (and the mod with saved games therein).

But once I played the game I thought, "Wow, shiny!" I had never downloaded the Rome UI or the resources addons, so that plus everything new was a real change (for the good).

Second immpression was remembering how long the battles could go without anyone dying...

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Overall:

[nikolai1962]

It's lost that beta feeling for sure. I only meant to play a few turns before going back to modding but ended up spending hours trying to get to the Getai guy's Unifier trait thingy. Big thumb's up.

[philos]

Great job guys... the game looks great and seems a lot more historically accurate than the vanilla version...

However, since this is a beta version... there are some things that require improvement:
- the game is a lot slower than rtw (I switched the game options to "fast" but the game still requires a lot of time to load); I managed to play the battles at a decent level by reducing the unit size to small (which is ok but it ain't fun at all having 15-20 military/unit)
- bugs regarding units and buildings. Eg: independents' light cav units appear w pezzies icons; the regional getae rax (or whatever the name is, I cannot remember the exact name) does not have a description and it does not produce any units at all; most unit descriptions have extremely large fonts with the name of the unit which partially gets on top of the unit description and stats (which are at normal font size) etc etc

[Gazius]

My first impression. Oh. My. God. Is that.... could it be? The perfect game?! Wait, no, there's a screw up. That seems wrong. Why is that there? Look at that graphic display. The text needs darkened there. Can't that guy spell anything? What is that supposed to be, a knight in shiny peasant robes? Wait, that's his skin. So what does the unit look like? Who is this unit anyways? WHERE ARE THE PANTS?! CAN WE GET THE MAN SOME PANTS?! Much better. Ok. That's a bit TOO realistic, but hey, its the thought that counts.

But it'll get there! I highly suspect that EB 1.0 will render almost all other games simpy not worth the time to load them. Nothing comes close to the awesomeness contained in a single mod. Sure, CA provided the base, but they left so much potential unused that this would appear to be just another game, ableit with a delightful set-up of strategic and tactic elements.

[Oleo]

First impression was terrible. I was shocked at how much I had accustomed to the M2TW look, which is of course superior to any RTW look.

But that feeling was gone after two turns and one battle. This is so much better than M2TW. Now I am loving it, I can finally play RTW again, without getting bored cause either there was a) the save and load bug of 1.2 or b) it wasnt EB-RTW and any other RTW is simply boring after you've played EB.